+1 Best,
Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Jul 15, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Chris Williams <ch...@clwill.com> wrote: > IMHO, the best design approach is to start with width. It's the best > indicator of overall size, and allows you to "get in the ballpark" with > respect to the question: is this a desktop, tablet or phone? > > Once you've established width, you can configure your content to look good > with that, and always allow for scrolling to make up the difference. > Scrolling is a natural motion, and no one doesn't "get" scrolling. Yes, > it can be a PITA, but it is not "hard" or confusing. > > If you then want to take it further, and get a "single page" effect, you > can, within widths, determine heights, and scale to those. But as others > have noted, there's just no reasonable way to keep up with all the > variations in screen size, and I feel this is a fool's errand. > > So for me, I pay 95% of my attention to width. It also has the side > effect of being very easy to test for, just by dragging the edge of a > browser window around. > > On 7/14/15, 9:43 AM, "css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org on behalf of Tom > Livingston" <css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org on behalf of > tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, David Hucklesby <huckle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 7/13/15 2:44 PM, Crest Christopher wrote: >>> >>>> I know it can be up to personal taste, if you create a portrait >>>> responsive >>>> page, does it matter if it's not designed for landscape ? >>>> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
